Strange Currencies

By Daniel Sandecki and Daniel Sendecki

Poetry. Includes black and white photographs. "In STRANGE CURRENCIES, Daniel Sendecki travels through a Far East of haunting contrasts, where 'Roadside children collect lotus flowers to weave into... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0973223308
• ISBN13: 9780973223309
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Ahadada Books
• Length: 69 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Heartfelt Journey

Daniel Sendecki's poetry collection traces his travels through the East, from China to India with lots of stops and 'Strange Currencies' to deal with on the way. I love the title and its reference to funny money, as well as the values we place on things, how we spend our time and our lives, and how others spend theirs. The layout is superb. Sendecki starts each poem with a photograph of the place and the coins he found there. Then, there are the words. In Six Exposures,he takes word snapshots: "6/ In Siem Reap a girl gets married/ and she is so afraid and sad that she gets/ up on the back of a water buffalo and cries." This is beautiful stuff.